This is a readable, thoughtful and sensible study of one of the most important Jewish Palestinian documents from the Greco-Roman period. --Journal of Jewish Studies Murphy has done us the service of making this otherwise obscure text accessible to all. Those who wish to consult Pseudo-Philo should make Murphy's book their first stop --Lexington Theological Quarterly This solid, if not always spectacular, work cataloguing the data of Pseudo-Philo will be much appreciated. --Journal of Theological Stusdies